User:Bp/HDCD Curiosities
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Strange cases from List of HDCD-encoded Compact Discs.
Contents
Weird
Various - For The Masses (1998)
This tribute collection of Depeche Mode covers signals -4.0dB gain adjust throughout the album, but only one one channel.
"Special Mode" discs
- Yngwie Malmsteen - Concerto Suite For Electric Guitar And Orchestra Live (2002)
- HDCD Sampler (1992)
The fakest fake HDCD disc
John Williams - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
This disc has a few HDCD packets added to the start and end of each track, but otherwise is not an HDCD disc. All the packets are NOP.
Very-high error count
Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (2005)
Contains a very high number of packets with errors. Booklet says "CD Mastered ... using the Pacific Microsonic HDCD system"
False Positives
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